Revealed: ECB Secretly Hands Cash to Select Corporations
Is the ECB’s latest bond-buying program creating corporate winners and losers?
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Bill Black: Why Whistleblowers’ Disclosures Need Protection Under the Law
Big companies work hard at silencing whistleblowers. Here are some ways to keep them from shutting whistleblowers down.
Read more...A Hard Look at the War Criminals, Um, Hawks Who Say “Never Trump”
The hawks who are throwing bricks at Trump forgot that they are living in glass houses.
Read more...Eurozone Stability Under Threat of a ‘Bad Shock’
Remarkably, an increasing number of economists believe the Eurozone has addressed its weaknesses. Shades of the Great Moderation, circa 2006.
Read more...The Link Between Health Spending and Life Expectancy: The US is an Outlier
Why does lavish health spending in the US produce so little in the way of results?
Read more...Gaius Publius: “You Broke It, You Bought It” – A Sanders Activist Challenges Clinton Supporters
Clinton’s hard move to the right is causing some consternation among bona fide progressives. But what will they do about it?
Read more...SEC Shamed: Whistleblower Refuses Multimillion Dollar Award Due to Ex-Deutsche Bank Attorneys at SEC Protecting Deutsche Execs (and Themselves)
Deutsche Bank whistleblower Eric Ben-Artzi makes a huge financial sacrifice to call out corruption in SEC enforcement.
Read more...How WalMart Makes You Pay for Its (Lack of) Policing
Yet another WalMart scam….
Read more...Banks Pushing Back Against Negative Interest Rates With Threat to Store Cash
Banks are looking into holding more cash as central banks threaten to drive interest rates even further into negative terrain.
Read more...What Will You Do When The Lights Go Out? The Inevitable Failure Of The US Grid
Power grid failure and coupled systems
Read more...More Bombs, More Shells, More Napalm: Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention
The nature of US military interventions has become relevant in the face of new growing threats, particularly from so-called Islamic State. While top-down strategies that rely on overwhelming firepower are sometimes favoured by politicians, longer-term strategies use a bottom-up approach, gaining citizens’ support through civic engagement. This column introduces evidence from US actions during the Vietnam War to show that bottom-up approaches are more successful in countering insurgencies than violent, top-down interventions.
Read more...Hot Money and Financial Activity in Commodity Exporters
A new World Bank paper looks at the interaction between commodity prices and commodity exporters. It’s a story about hot money.
Read more...Big Wall Street Firms Make Lame Excuse for Volcker Rule Non-Compliance, Ask for Additional Five Year Extension
Big Wall Street firms like Goldman and Morgan Stanley offer “dog ate my homework” excuses for failure to comply with the Volcker Rule.
Read more...William Astore: Why Do Military Professionals Remain Silent About America’s Disastrous Wars?
Why is there so little domestic criticism of U.S. foreign policy and its disastrous wars and so little military dissent in particular?
Read more...Bill Black: Thomas Friedman – Deregulation Makes Banking Safe
Thomas Friedman, who needs to be renamed “Wrong Way Friedman,” tries peddling the canard that deregulation is a plus for bank stability.
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